Today I had the unsettling experience of being that teacher of whom the students say things like “Be careful, she’s in a bad mood today”. You’re not supposed to have moods when you’re a teacher – something that has been rather a struggle for me, being someone who’s fairly, erm, expressive about life’s highs and [...]
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I picked up my fuzzy soju head this morning and headed off to Daejeon’s Expo Park with the kindergarten kiddies. We’ve been there before – several times, in fact – but it’s so big and has so many different kinds of attractions that you can spend several days there without doing the same activity twice. [...]
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Tonight I went to a restaurant called “Dino Meat” with my colleagues to celebrate a few staff birthdays. Despite my fears about the kind of meat served here, it turned out to be the most incredible BBQ restaurant you can imagine. You each pay 15,000 won (about 8 or 9 pounds), and for that you [...]
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Last night I went to a cultural event organised by the Alliance française – which we ended up missing due to the usual communication breakdowns, but never mind. We decided to go for dinner and wine instead, and I walked back into the venue to look for Terri and bring her out. Let’s go! We’re [...]
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A translation of the French post. The French lessons are going pretty well, so I decided to do number 52 on my list of 101 things in French. Unfortunately I don’t think it’ll be possible to do number 51 … I’ve basically quit my efforts to learn Korean, because I couldn’t find a good course. [...]
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I think I’ve hit upon one of the reasons I get restless after being in one place for too long. It’s very simple: I run out of things to write. I mean, I can sit here writing about anything under the sun until long after all my readers have fallen asleep, but as a writer, [...]
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Les cours de français vont assez bien, donc j’ai décidé de faire en français le numéro 52 sur ma liste de 101 choses. Malheureusement je ne pense pas qu’il sera possible de faire le numéro 51… j’ai en effet quitté mes efforts pour apprendre coréen, parce que je ne pouvais pas trouver un bon cours. La langue est [...]
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As I was sitting at the school lunch table today, eating my tuna and seaweed soup and getting as lost as ever in the Korean conversation, it suddenly occurred to me… hey, I’m eating tuna and seaweed soup! And enjoying it! Lukewarm water with canned tuna and slimy seaweed floating around in it. As if [...]
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We don’t have baseball in my country (or if we do, it’s not popular enough for me to have noticed), so I really know next to nothing about it. Uh… yeah… a bit like cricket, or something? I guessed vaguely when my colleague asked if I was familiar with the rules of the game. I’d gone [...]
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A few weeks ago, while my 4th grade after-school class were having a 5-minute break, my ears pricked up when I heard something that sounded suspiciously like an English swear word amongst all the murmured Korean chatter. Surprised, I began to pay attention to what they were saying. They seemed to be discussing ordinary childhood [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
